by Tula Connell | Oct 18, 2019 | Freedom to Form Unions, Migration & Trafficking, Workers & Human Rights
The freedom to speak, join unions and take part in community life are basic human rights that apply to all people—including migrant workers and refugees, panelists at a United Nations side event said this afternoon in New York City. “Migrant workers and refugees don’t...
by Tula Connell | Oct 17, 2019 | Freedom to Form Unions, Migration & Trafficking, Workers & Human Rights
Join Solidarity Center and CIVICUS Friday, October 18, at 3 p.m. EST for the launch of a new report, Freedoms on the Move: The Civic Space of Migrant Workers and Refugees, by CIVICUS and the Solidarity Center. Participants at the event will share findings and...
by Tula Connell | May 14, 2019 | Africa, Migration & Trafficking, South Africa, Swaziland, Workers & Human Rights
As a migrant mine worker from Swaziland, Mduduzi Thabethe says he has fewer workplace rights than his South African co-workers. Although all mine workers pay the same amount into the health fund, migrant workers get inferior care and pensions are rare. “If you are a...
by Kate Conradt | Mar 28, 2019 | Bahrain, Kuwait, Middle East & North Africa, Migration & Trafficking, Qatar, Workers & Human Rights
In Gulf Cooperation Council countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—amnesties for workers in irregular status are frequently declared, indicating that irregularity is a common and recurring phenomenon within the governing...
by Carolyn Butler | Feb 21, 2019 | Africa, Kenya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration & Trafficking
The Central Organization of Trade Unions-Kenya (COTU-K) and the Kuwait Trade Union Federation (KTUF) signed a cooperative agreement last week in Kuwait City, formalizing the federations’ effort to jointly address issues affecting workers who migrate from Kenya to...
by Tula Connell | Jan 8, 2019 | Asia, Migration & Trafficking, Thailand, Workers & Human Rights
Reach for a can of tuna in your cupboard and there is a good chance it was packed by a migrant worker in Thailand. In southern Samut Sakhon Province, near the Gulf of Thailand, 6,000 factories employ some of the estimated 2 million to 4 million migrant workers, and...
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